Development economics and emerging economies

This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data.

Develops a partisan theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) to explain variance in FDI regulation and resulting foreign investment inflows.

This volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program.

Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

After a turbulent modern history of conquest and colonialism, Mexico has developed as an economy that may be emerging but still displays significant levels of poverty, particularly in relation to its neighbor to the north, the United States.

This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia's "e;revolution for dignity"e; and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution.

The Caribbean economy remains a region with many paradoxes.

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times.

This book examines the role of intangible assets (IA) in companies and countries for achieving sustainable economic growth.

In an era of globalization, trade in goods and cross-border services and capital flows play a key role in determining the economic growth path of countries.

Development has alleviated poverty in many countries during the 50 years since the end of War World II, yet half of mankind remains poor; a fifth are very poor.

China Versus the West is an innovative book.

In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context.

Aid organizations like Oxfam, CARE, World Vision, and Catholic Relief Services are known the world over.

The accelerating pace of global change demands that economies must be adaptable.

Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries?

This volume presents selected articles from the 21st Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, which was held in Budapest (Hungary) in 2017.

The Arab Spring and recent popular uprisings that have taken place in many Arab countries since the end of 2010 highlight the urgent need for economic policy reorientation in these countries.

This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health.

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions.

The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country.

The years immediately following the Bengal Famine of 1943 witnessed the consolidation of communal ideologies culminating in the riots of 1946 in Calcutta and the violence in Noakhali on 1946-47.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the most salient aspects of development finance.

The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in international trade and economic development.

This study assesses the current state of economic integration in Asia - in particular in East and South East Asia- and analyzes the prerequisites for a sustainable path of economic integration, using the background of the EU experience as a benchmark.

Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries.

Landing your first UX design job is tougher than ever.

Inequality remains one of the most intensely discussed topics on a global level.

During the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in issues of land reform in developing and transitional countries.

This book examines the globalisation of technology and innovation in the modern world.

This title was first published in 2003.

South and East Asia may well become the epicentres of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Cooperative Enterprises is the first textbook to examine the evolution of the cooperative enterprise model and the contribution that cooperatives can make to the economy and society.

This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trade, by foregrounding cost-benefit analysis as a significant policy tool.

The world economy has undergone miraculous changes in the last decade, particularly in developing and former communist countries.

Following the eight year rule of Idi Amin, then several years of war and civil war, the Ugandan economy was in ruins by the time peace was restored in 1986.

This book identifies the root causes of income inequality in underdeveloped economies and proposes new solutions for structural reform in economies that have long neglected and exploited working people.

This is a no-holds-barred, comprehensive, real-world guide to building political power and successfully lobbying for nonprofits in the 21st century, written by an insider who has been in the trenches as both a lobbyist and a government official.

An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their citizens.

Many rural areas in the United States find themselves struggling to build local assets and create wealth, and, when this wealth is created, they often struggle to hold on it.

A unique study of public service evolution in the 15 post-soviet countries from independence to date.

This book delves into the economic development of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

This book analyses India's trade policy evolution in the last two decades in the broad context of trends and patterns in global trade and in particular, with reference to the emergence of global value chains (GVCs).